ESH: Gabe L - 25 Years

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🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Gabe L is from San Diego he was sober 25 year at the time of this speak, he is telling his story at an unknown meeting somewhere in Southern California in 2016. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate If you have an AA roundup, retreat or convention coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit our Linktree, click "Submit An AA Event" and fill out the short form. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sobercast Sober Cast has 2000+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops in podcast
0:11.8	format.
0:12.8	We're an ad free podcast and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting
0:17.1	SilverCast.com, look for the donate link and drop a dollar to into our virtual basket.
0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:27.4	Good evening, my name is Gabe, I am an alcoholic.
0:32.0	I'm not going to need that thing in a minute, I can tell you that right now.
0:37.8	What it was like, what happened and what it's like today.
0:41.0	What happened was, I drink a lot of booze and I got a lot of trouble.
0:48.9	I did things that men shouldn't do.
0:51.1	I did things that human beings shouldn't do.
0:56.0	I come from a family of 10 kids, I was number 9 out of 10.
1:00.2	I did a nine year old boy used to hide in the closet with my little brothers and sisters
1:03.2	and hold them while my mom and dad fought in our drunken stupidity.
1:08.8	And I grew up real scared, real scared.
1:13.2	17 years old, the judge decided it was time for me to go someplace else and he gave me
1:17.5	a choice between the United States Army and somewhere else and I joined the United States
1:21.9	Army.
1:23.8	And I did a lot of really interesting things for a few years in the Army.
1:27.7	Things that I would never ever ever be able to explain, show or tell about because they're
1:32.6	beautiful.
1:33.6	I got to jump out airplanes and blow things up all over the world.
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